How can art and culture contribute to creating new imaginaries of the future within the current political and social discourse marked by misinformation, radicalization, populism, and a general crisis of representative democracy? Shaping Desired Futures draws the map of a changing Europe that can help contextualize today’s burning questions and trace still unknown narratives shared by Eastern and Central Europe. Through a series of interviews, essays, and artistic contributions, it proposes new means through which art can model alternative visions and help shaping different desirable futures.

Art for UBI is a manifesto: the world of art positions itself in favor of universal and unconditional basic income, placing in the foreground its advantageous conditions in economic, social and ecological terms.

“I also don't know the five new federal states and, if I want to film there, I have to have a leading figure. It is the profiteer, development aid worker and missionary all in one. He breaks into the accession area from the West in army strength. The film is about such a salesman.” –– Harun Farocki, 1990/91

In 1976, Harun Farocki and Hanns Zischler directed Heiner Müller’s plays The Battle and Tractor for Theater Basel. For Farocki, this production remained his only directorial work for theater. With Heiner Müller, however, he remained in intellectual exchange. The two collaborated on the adaptation of Müller’s text The Hamletmachine for radio in 1978; for the May 1981 issue of the magazine Filmkritik, they conducted a conversation.

In the mid-1970s, Harun Farocki wrote a two-page call programmatically entitled “What Ought to Be Done,” followed by a survey addressed to potential collaborators and supporters.........
Mitte der 1970er Jahre schrieb Harun Farocki einen zweiseitigen Aufruf mit dem Titel „Was getan werden soll“, der von einer Umfrage unter potentiellen MitarbeiterInnen und UnterstützerInnen begleitet wurde.........

The Atlas of Anomalous AI is a compelling and surprising map of our complex relationship to intelligence, from ancient to emerging systems of knowledge. A wildly associative constellation of ideas, stories, artworks and historical materials, the Atlas draws on art historian Aby Warburg’s Mnemosyne Atlas — an image map of the “afterlife of antiquity” — to approach the defining concepts of AI from an imaginative, artistic and revitalising perspective.

Ein Heft zur Entstehungsgeschichte von Harun Farockis Film Bilder der Welt und Inschrift des Krieges (1988), der sich zwischen 1985 und 1988 in mehreren Etappen aus dem unverwirklichten Projekt „Zur Geschichte der Arbeit“ heraus entwickelte.

『NO-ISBN, 독립출판에 대하여』는 오스트리아 빈을 기반으로 활동 중인 아티스트 버나드 셀라를 주축으로 레오 핀다이센, 아그네스 블라하 세 사람이 ISBN(국제표준도서번호)을 부여받지 않고, 일반적인 국제 거래 시스템에 속하지 않은 총 1,800여 권의 독립출판물을 살펴보고 연구한 결과를 담은 책이다. 500여 쪽에 이르는 이 책의 내용은 크게 ‘개념미술’ 매체로 활용되는 출판물, 출판물의 매혹적인 물성, 포스트디지털 시대의 출판, 정치적 매체로서 ‘NO-ISBN’,

Black Ecologies proposes the concept of Black Ecologies as a “resistance to extractive ecologies across the colonial-capitalist world.” Recognizing our world is at a crossroads, Black Ecologies is a multigenerational, multidimensional dialogue and a reminder that Black resistance is always already tending to other ecologies of being(s).

Independent art spaces on the African continent have flourished, particularly over the past twenty years in tandem with a youthful population in fast-urbanising cities.

Ein Heft zur Entstehungsgeschichte von Harun Farockis Film Bilder der Welt und Inschrift des Krieges (1988), der sich zwischen 1985 und 1988 in mehreren Etappen aus dem unverwirklichten Projekt „Zur Geschichte der Arbeit“ heraus entwickelte.

Dissent Without Modification (Bergen Kunsthall), written by Grace Ndiritu, is a research book composed of interviews with radical and progressive artists and thinkers, who started their education and careers in the 1990s. Some are well-known, some are not. They are African, European, and American women working as painters, photographers, performers, hackers, activists and educators, among other roles such as Lisha Sterling, Monster Chetwynd and Kathrin Böhm.

A small selection of texts written by the outstanding film critic and translator Frieda Grafe, complemented by the speech that Harun Farocki gave when Grafe and Enno Patalas were given the “01 award” in 2000.

Osawatomie is a direct allusion to the eponymous battle waged by the abolitionist John Brown of whom Victor Hugo at the time of saving him from hanging says "Yes, let America know and think about it, there is something more frightening than Cain killing Abel, it is Washington killing Spartacus".

Music has been just as central as art, film and architecture in the formation of the German capital’s unique identity, although too often neglected by Berlin’s historians and biographers.

We are on the verge of sharing our cities with autonomous vehicles. Recent developments in driverless technologies are having an impact on our urban environment, raising questions about how self-driving vehicles could be integrated into our daily lives.

RAW Académie was developed in Dakar to create a space of experimental teaching and collaboration, of deconstruction and exposure, of knowledge and nourishment. Koyo Kouoh, founder of RAW Material Company, wished for curatorial inquiry and critical writing to join artistic thinking at this site of international encounters. During these two-month long sessions that take place twice a year, young artists and

The term ‘ricochet’ is a means to discuss unintended consequences, rapidly delivered information and viral outbreaks, but it is also used to describe the way in which sound echoes or reverberates against objects in space.

Curator Christine Eyene challenges the Eurocentric and patriarchal frameworks that have informed the history of sound art and, to some extent, continue to define current practice. Sounds Like Her is a challenge

Another Gaze, a feminist film journal #04 brings together essays, conversations, and critical reflections that examine cinema through feminist, queer, and

Es war der einzige erfolgreiche Aufstand in der modernen Geschichte, in der versklavte Menschen aus eigener Kraft ihre Freiheit und Unabhängigkeit erkämpften.

"Selbstbewusstwerdung" versammelt ausgewählte Rezensionen, Manifeste, Gespräche und theoretische Texte der italienischen Kunstkritikerin, feministischen Autorin und Aktivistin Carla Lonzi (1931-1982). Diese bislang im Deutschen nicht zugänglichen Kunstkritiken und Schriften

Jeder Raum, wo Wesen wie wir leben, ist voll beweglicher Materie. Doch worin liegen die ethischen und politischen Kriterien für unseren Umgang mit dieser Materialität des Kollektiven?

Nähert man sich der Autonomie der Kunst als einem historischen Problem statt als einer gefährdeten Errungenschaft, ergibt sich eine grundlegend reorganisierte Kunstgeschichte. Die moderne Freiheit der Kunst zeigt sich als gesellschaftliche Selbstentmündigung, ihr bürgerlicher Fortschritt als akademische Beschränkung. Als moderne wurde die künstlerische Praxis unausweichlich individuell, sittlich und national....

'The book Public Sphere by Performance results from a two-year research project Performance and the Public that Ana Vujanović, Bojana Cvejić and Marta Popivoda carried out in 2011 and 2012, during the residency of TkH (Walking Theory) platform (Belgrade) at Les Laboratoires d’Aubervillier. The part of the research of Marta Popivoda gave rise to the documentary film Yugoslavia: How Ideology Moved Our Collective Body.

The liberal capitalist world order that prevailed after 1989 is today in a stage of advanced disintegration. The collapse of this order exposes the illiberal core of its freedoms and forms of ownership shaped by the market: the violent unfreedoms of the dispossessed as well as the willingness of the propertied to use violence. Art, too, reveals itself as the venue of these forces and their exclusions:

The publication is the first comprehensive documentation of the project White Space in White Space, which was initiated by Stano Filko, Miloš Laky, and Ján Zavarský in 1973 and evolved over the course of almost ten year. This book examines all the international exhibitions (Brno, Budapest, Paris, Warsaw, Beograd, Kassel), the collected manifestos, and the artists’ writings as well as the project’s further transformation in the practice of Stano Filko as a solo artist.

Significantly expanding the scope and functions of the HaFI pamphlet series, Ben Alper and Stanley Wolukau-Wanambwa present visual unknowns and forgotten gestures from the defunct archives of American mid-century news photography. Carefully curated and collated, their iconographic essay, a Bilderatlas of sorts, explores in depth the notion of “hide,” and of what forces normative relations to the visible serve to veil. How can, how should these images be looked at? And how do they unsettle the contemporary gaze?

Following its German publication, Marc Schwegler’s essay Über das Potenzial begrenzter Ordnungen now appears in an English translation by N. Cyril Fischer and a completely re-worked design by Dorothee Dähler and Kaj Lehmann.

African art history continues to be dominated by Western scholars who set the tone for the field. Their cultural frames of reference, which they cast as universal, exert influence on the interpretation of African art, social conditions, and cultural milieu. The knowledge produced in most institutions and academic or independent publishers outside of Africa communicates the extant system in place within those localities. In other words, the audience for such forms of knowledge production is not (necessarily) in Africa.

Rab-Rab Press announces the publication of Free Jazz Communism, a new book actualising Archie Shepp–Bill Dixon Quartet at the 8th World Festival of Youth and Students in Helsinki 1962.

The work of Nicolas Paris compromises of research into the processes of learning and speculation, and is based on four concepts: tool, method, idea and system. This book is separated into four sections that address these four concepts, forming a manual that can be used by everyone, not merely artists or art lovers.

Taking HIV criminalization as a starting point, Cell Count brings together artists who unpack and reconfigure the metaphors and assumptions that enable the punishment and incarceration of people living with HIV.

This book gathers together the presentations made at the International Symposium '

In With Ease Through Heaviness lotet Robert Pfaller die Grenzlinien zwischen philosophischer Reflexion und künstlerischer Praxis aus.

"Spaces of Commoning: Artistic Research and the Utopia of the Everyday'' is the outcome of a research project pursued by a group of artists, architects and social theorists, who in the face of exhilarating politics of accumulation and dispossession explore commoning as the subject as well as the means of their collective study.

Seit ihrem Erscheinen hat die durch den Philosophen Wolfgang Scheppe an der Universität für Architektur in Venedig (IUAV) unternommene vierjährige Studie zur globalisierten Stadt den Rang eines Standardwerks erreicht.

Städte wachsen seit Jahrzehnten an den Peripherien. Die Folge sind hybride Gegenden aus städtischen und ländlichen Fragmenten.

Tom Holerts neues Buch präpariert in einer Fülle von Einzelanalysen der internationalen Bildpolitik der letzten Jahre die Differenzen und Details, die Emergenzen und Effekte spezifischer Bild-Ereignisse heraus.

Adrian Sauer ist bildender Künstler und Fotograf. In seinem bisherigen Werk befasst er sich mittels digital rekomponierter Fotografien gleichermaßen mit den Bedingungen und Folgen des Verschwindens der analogen Fotografie für die zeitgenössische Bildkultur.

»Alle reden vom Wetter. Wir auch!« Gestaltung: Markus Dreßen und Helmut Völter

Immer wieder kreist Jacques Rancières Denken um die wechselseitige Durchdringung von Politik und Ästhetik.

The relationship of art to work and the conditions of artistic production has long engaged many in the field of visual art. Work is a broad concept, the meaning of which has changed radically as a result of the social and technological transformations that have taken place over the past century. (engl.)

HaFI 008 presents an unpublished talk given by Harun Farocki in 1987 at the event “Films that Think in Images” at the Akademie der Künste, West Berlin.

This volume both develops and creates new contexts for the theories and strategies illustrated by Igor Zabel in his exhibitions, publications, critical writings and European exchange initiatives.

Die Reihe KUB Arena Publikationen, herausgegeben von Yilmaz Dziewior und Eva Birkenstock, begleitet ab Herbst 2012 regelmäßig die Ausstellungs- und Veranstaltungsprojekte der KUB Arena.

The book tracks the various legacies of conceptual practice.

Beiträge zu einem problematischen Verhältnis

Lacaton and Vassal’s principle of doubling space is echoed in the book’s treatment of photography: black-and-white exterior shots that run alongside the text form a dialogue with corresponding full-color photographs of each interior, gathered at the end of the book.

13. Oktober 2008 Ein soziologischer Systemtheoretiker kommt ins Seminar und kündigt an, über die Liebe sprechen zu wollen. Verwunderung: Ist die Liebe etwa ein System?

Badious ›Metapolitik‹ setzt sich dezidiert von einer politischen Philosophie ab, die sich lediglich darauf beschränkt, die allgemeinen Bedingungen politischer Urteilsbildung zu analysieren und sie schließlich, in kantischer Tradition, zu einem »geschwätzigen« Meinungsaustausch degradiert.

Die über Jahrzehnte entstandenen Jahrbücher Nanne Meyers,vermitteln eine Ahnung vom Inspirations- und Gedankenkosmos der Künstlerin. Auf inzwischen 28 Exemplare angewachsen, füllt Nanne Meyer Blindbände von Verlagen mit "Beobachtungen, Aufzeichnungen, Fotos, Texten, Erinnerungen, Papierschnipseln, einem Bewegungsimpuls, Gesprächsfetzen, Worten, dem Beginn einer Linie.

A Critical Reader in Contemporary Art

»Weil das Bild jener Schein ist, der behauptet, er sei das, was den Schein gibt, steht Platon auf gegen die Malerei als eine Aktivität, die mit der seinen rivalisiert. Dieses andere ist das ›klein a‹, um das ein Kampf geführt wird, dessen Seele die Augentäuschung ist.«

Auf der Basis präziser Lektüren erarbeitet Sarah Kofman eine differenzierte und sehr persönliche Sicht auf Nietzsches Verhältnis zum Judentum.

Seit 1974 macht Ulrike Ottinger Filme, die sich zwischen fiktionalem Kunstfilm und postmoderner Dokumentation bewegen.

Ein Report

Das komplexe Verhältnis von Blick und Körperlichkeit in der Philosophie der Neuzeit ist Gegenstand des jüngsten Buches des slowenischen Philosophen Miran Božovic.

Die beiden hier versammelten Texte haben nur den einen Ehrgeiz: auf der Basis einer in Gang befindlichen Arbeit und von einem praktischen Anliegen her eine Neubewertung jenes Theaters anzubieten.

»Der Dildo stiftet Unbehagen/ Lust. Und tatsächlich ist der Dildo das Stück, das fehlt, um das paranoide Rätsel zu lösen, das der lesbische Sex im sexuellen heterozentristischen Modell darstellt; als ermögliche er die Antwort auf jene drängende Frage: wie ficken Lesben ohne Penis?"